History Film / TheAggressionScale

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Maggie's daughter Lauren is not happy about her mother marrying a total stranger, being uprooted from the city, moving to the middle of nowhere, or acquiring a stepbrother with an AmbiguousDisorder, and is quite vocal about her displeasure. She toughens up over the course of the film.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Owen has just been released from a high security facility. He suffering from some form of mental disorder, the exact nature of which is never specified. It bears some hallmarks of autism, and he refuses to communicate verbally. He is a savant when it comes to creating lethal traps.

* HealItWithFire: After being shot, Owen [[WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut digs the bullet out]] of [[SelfSurgey his own chest with a combat knife]], and then cauterizes the wound with the car's cigarette lighter.

* BullyHunter: According to his medical file, Owen was confined to a secure mental facility after her crippled two bullies who pushed him too far.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Lloyd is stated to have become selectively mute following his stint in the mental institution. His aggressive tendencies apparently go back much farther than that and he manages to single handedly take out an entire crew of mob-connected hitmen.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Lloyd puts his TrapMaster skills to great effect to protect himself and Lauren from Lloyd and his crew and outright murders 2 of them for threatening his stepsister. For her part, Lauren inverts this by fatally stabbing Wydofski when he gains the upper hand while fighting Lloyd.

* GroinAttack: When Chissolm chases Lauren into Owen's room, she kicks im in the groin. This is the start of Chissolm's TraumaCongaLine.

* PocketProtector: Owen is saved from Lloyd's bullet by the hubcap he had stolen and shoved gown is sweatshirt to use as a weapon. The bullet still goes through it, but is slowed down enough that lodges in his sternum rather than pentrating his chest cavity.

* SelfSurgery: After being shot, Owen [[WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut digs the bullet out his own chest with a combat knife]], and then cauterizes the wound with the car's cigarette lighter.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Just over 48 hours. Ballavance gives Lloyd 48 hours to kill everyone who had access to the money and return to the cash to him. Bellavance and his son are still in his office during the final scene, indicating that it cannot be more than a few hours past the deadline.

''The Aggression Scale'' is a 2012 action film directed by Steven C. Miller. It stars Creator/RayWise, Dana Ashbrook, Derek Mears, Fabianne Therese, Ryan Hartwig, and Jacob Reynolds.

* MacGyvering: Owen is like a sociopathic teenage MacGyver when it comes to turning common household items into lethal weapons.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Lloyd is stated to have become selectively mute following his stint in the mental institution. His aggressive tendencies apparently go back much farther than that.